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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1961

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Good Painting Wait You Trouble Dry

What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.

Character Great Time Interesting DNA

It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.

Picture First Get Your Second Than

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Festivals Movies See I See Most

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

John Ralston Saul

Freedom People Book Believe Fighting

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Myself Words You Know Nice Chicken

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Health School Violence Chicago Saw

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

Me Crazy Dinner World America Where

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Success Community Feel More Started

When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

Chet Williamson

Book Want Same Like Read Surprised

I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and you couldn't write home and tell people, 'Look, I'm really lonely,' because you'd realize how much those letters were going to matter, that you needed to put good news or uplifting news into them.

Good Home Yourself People Think You

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

Chrystia Freeland

President Over He Himself After

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Power Eyes Day World Championship

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